Observations in Life

I reblog shit and occasionally write stuff. Murp.

[xxwitchyxwomanxx]

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[overpricedvodka]

Reasons why Millennials prefer e-mail to phone in a work environment:

1) We don’t want to talk to you.

2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.

3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?

But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.

And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.

Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?

Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.

EDIT

Also: let’s keep it real – we multi-task better than you do. If I’m on the phone with you, I’m FORCED to do that ONE thing and put whatever you want above all the other things I could’ve been doing. If you e-mail me, I can research what you want (while doing other things), find the solution (while doing other things), and offer it to you in a nice concise package (while doing other things) without sitting on the phone with you in awkward silence looking for the answer to whatever you think is urgent. (It’s not urgent. You’re not dying. I know it’s not urgent.)

[anais-ninja-bitch]

OP is being kind in saying “i don’t have to trust your recollection.” people straight up lie, especially customers.

[fuck-customers]

[life-of-eris]

If you had five billion you could hop from job to job, calling entitled customers idiots all across your city, putting the fear of You into every shithead in town until people become afraid to be rude to servers and cashiers, lest you emerge from the back room like some kind of manners-enforcing specter

[aceofsquiddles]

[probablybadrpgideas]

Play a gunslinger, who critically misunderstands their role as a gunslinger and just throws guns.

[saturn-in-retrograde]

[johnsdavidwashington]

“I don’t own a dog in life, so I was (complaining) like, I’ve gotta work with a dog. What if the dog licks me? Dogs are nasty and disgusting. Within the first five minutes, I’m kissing the dog, I’m holding the dog, the dog was on my chest. I love that dog, and she came to me so easily.”

[elegantpaws]

Dogs are awesome and not nasty. Humans whom don’t take care of them are lol. Awww cute.

[trans-snart]

the critics saying Tom Hardy is “over-acting” in Venom are just used to superhero movie protagonists being stoic and silent and don’t know what to do with an actor who actually makes his characters express emotions in healthy ways lmao

(mild spoilers ahead) When Eddie’s sad he looks miserable and teary and openly expresses why. He shrieks when he’s startled. He panics when he’s confused and worried. He silently screams when he’s angry and can’t do anything about it. He reacts to the events of the movie in a way that someone might actually respond.

Critics are just so used to machismo in their superhero movies that they don’t know what to do in the absence of it.

point being: Venom was fucking good and the critics are wrong

[swvevo]

[luna-forever-1]

😂

[aenramsden]

You have to admire her audacity, if nothing else.

[boogabeing]

Literally my favourite thing about Rogue One is that it makes the opening of New Hope so funny. Like, Vader has followed Leia from a planet he just blew up seconds ago and pursued her across the galaxy and then she’s just like: ‘I’m on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan’

Vader: You’re a rebel. I just had a fight with your entire rebel fleet and followed you here. Straight from the rebels. Of which you are a part

Leia: *dramatic gasp* rebel? Me???  I was just passing through. Diplomatically. Thought it was a five-space-ship pile-up or something going on there… 

[hashtagloveloses]

death star plans? on my alderaanian diplomatic mission? it’s more likely than you think

[captainlordauditor]

[esoanem]

I saw loads of people shitting on rogue one saying it introduced a plot hole to the opening of a new hope

and I just

???

It makes it so much better

the bravado Leia has to not just try this shit, but give it her all and honestly think it might work

she is fantastic

[datasoong47]

I mean, we already knew she was lying about not knowing, and it was already portrayed as a bit of a stretch to expect Vader to believe her.  So, really, that just fits right in with what we’d already seen in Episode IV

[valtsv]

woman in a film: soaked in blood brandishing a knife in grimy hands screaming incoherently veins popping on her forehead red faced and disheveled going absolutely feral with rage

me:

[woormfoood-deactivated20220614]

k but “spark joy” is legitimately delightful as a phrase, and it’s helpful and refreshing as a concept, and you KNOW if a white woman had come up with it, every other white girl would already have a rose gold travel mug that says “spark joy” in loopy cursive on it

[kaginukirem]

a moment of silence for female characters who get a lot of shit but would be adored if they were male

[zaynsmiles-deactivated20190301]

no one tells you that Adulthood is faking it til you make it and finding joy in things like cleaning out your closet or managing to buy candles 50% off

[thetrashiestoftrash]

Please, I am begging you, visit the official Captain Marvel website

[thetrashiestoftrash]

I would post screenshots but they cannot possibly capture it.

[youboughtmeflowers]

Its Geocities! Ah, the memories.

[ironmess]

how not to write nerds: the big bang theory

how to write nerds: brooklyn nine nine

[electric-daisy-forest]

“My boyfriend/ girlfriend won’t let me…” yikes yikes yikes, abort that relationship

[antigothesis]

Unless its like

“My bf/gf won’t let me eat chocolate anymore because of that time when I said that I’d stop but I didn’t and ended up almost dying”

[kaijuno]

“My bf/gf won’t let me cook anymore after the spaghetti incident”

[nucleardaddy]

“My gf won’t let me pee in the sink”

[libertybill]

It’s been months since my wife let me go “buck wild” at home depot.

[sideshow-bob]

My boyfriend won’t let me drink red bull after the time I chugged it in three seconds, laughed hysterically for 20 minutes, then slid off my chair onto the floor and fell asleep under the D&D table.

The difference is caring vs controlling.

[horsegirlhob]

I’m a slut for sitting in comfortable silence while both of us do our own thing and occasionally show each other something dumb on our computers like that’s the good shit my dude. 

[maxknightley]

for real, though, why do recipes consistently tell you to use less herbs and spices in than you should. fuck your “two cloves of garlic,” fuck your “half teaspoon of cinnamon,” and you can absolutely go to hell with your “dash of black pepper”

[maxknightley]

I’m pretty sure that the only time I’ve ever actually managed to overseason food was when working with balsamic vinegar, which is the most overpowering motherfucker of a sauce known to man

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i appreciate the energy and anger in this post, which is righteous and just

[alexisthenedd]

A friend once tried to replicate my burrito bowl recipe from the same online link I used and was upset it didn’t come out as flavorful, so I had to tell him to imagine that every online recipe is written by a midwestern white lady who thinks ketchup is spicy and adjust the spices accordingly. He nailed those burrito bowls next time.

[yesbothways]

“imagine that every online recipe is written by a midwestern white lady who thinks ketchup is spicy and adjust the spices accordingly“

[pilipinoshabsols]

““I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.””

— Winona Ryder  (via 1112pm)